(2015) The Mina Crowd Crush (Part 1/2) | Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia - video Dailymotion

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Disaster Transbian episode 44

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00:00How people are taking shahideh like there's just nothing wrong with them

00:04because they're seeing the goodness what's coming to them

00:06and that's all the signs man of a good ending

00:09and the most important thing in our life

00:13is the good ending

00:15and the only way to get a good ending is to every day live like it's your last day

00:20so do good every day

00:22every day you've got to do good because you don't know if that's your last day

00:26because there's nothing worse in life

00:29than dying on the wrong way

00:31there's no coming back

00:32Are you ready to tell him that?

00:59Oh my God

01:02I pray for you

01:05I pray for Allah, the Most Merciful

01:26In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful

01:35يا سين والقرآن الحكيم

01:49إنك لمن المرسلين

01:59على صراط مستقيم

02:08تنزيل العزيز الرحيم

02:17لتنذر قوما ما أنذر آباؤهم

02:28فهم غافلون

02:33لقد حق القول على أكثرهم

02:40فهم لا يؤمنون

02:46إنا جعلنا في أعلاقهم أغلالا

02:57أغلالا فهي إلى الأذقال

03:03فهم مقمحون

03:09وجعلنا من بين أيديهم سدا

03:16ومن خلفهم سدا

03:21ومن خلفهم سدا

03:25فأغشيناهم فهم لا نبصرون

03:33وسواء عليهم أأنذرتهم

03:45أأنذرتهم أم لم تنذرهم لا يؤمنون

03:52إنما تنذر من اتبع الذكر وخشير الرحمن بالغيب

04:07فبشره بمغفرة وأجر كريم

04:17إنا نحن نحيي الموتى

04:25ونكتب ما قدموا وآثارهم

04:31وكل شيء أحصيناه في إمام مبين

04:42واغرب لهم مثلا أصحاب القرية

04:50إذ جاء أهل مرسلون

04:57إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمُ اثْنَيْنِ

05:05فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَعَسَّسْنَا بِثَالِثٍ

05:12فَقَالُوا فَقَالُوا إِنَّا إِلَيْكُم مُرْسَلُونَ

05:31In Islamic terminology

05:33Hajj is a pilgrimage

05:35made to the Kaaba

05:36the house of Allah

05:37in the sacred city of Mecca

05:39in Saudi Arabia

05:41it is one of the five pillars of Islam

05:44alongside Shahada

05:46that one believes there is no God but Allah

05:49Salat

05:50prayer

05:51Zakat

05:52almsgiving

05:53and salm

05:54fasting of Ramadan

05:55the Hajj

05:56is an annual practice

05:58when Muslim Brotherhood is on display

06:00and their solidarity with fellow Muslim people

06:03and submission to God Allah is fulfilled

06:06the word Hajj means pilgrimage

06:09made to the Kaaba

06:10a long pious journey

06:12taken by Muslims

06:13to cleanse their souls

06:15of all worldly sins

06:17which connotes both the outward act of a journey after death

06:21and the inward act of good intentions

06:25the rites of pilgrimage are performed over five to six days

06:29extending from the 8th to the 12th or 13th of Dhu al-Hijjah

06:34the last month of the Islamic calendar

06:37because the Islamic calendar is lunar

06:40and the Islamic year is about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian year

06:44the Gregorian date of Hajj changes from year to year

06:48in 2023 A.D. 1444 A.H.

06:53Dhu al-Hijjah extends from June 19th to July 18th

06:58the Hajj is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad peace be upon him

07:03from the 7th century A.D.

07:05but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca

07:08stated in Muslim sources

07:10stretches back to the time of Abraham

07:13during Hajj pilgrims join processions

07:16of millions of Muslim people

07:18who simultaneously converge on Mecca

07:21for the week of the Hajj

07:22and perform a series of pre-Islamic rituals

07:25reformed by Muhammad peace be upon him

07:29each person wears a single piece of unstitched white clothing

07:34walks counterclockwise seven times around the Kaaba

07:39a cube-shaped building

07:41in the direction of prayer for Muslims

07:44kiss the black stone mounted on the corner wall of Kaaba

07:48walks briskly back and forth between the hills of Safa and Marwah seven times

07:55then drinks from the Zamzam well

07:57goes to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil

08:01spends a night in the plain of Muzdalifah

08:04and performs symbolic stoning of the devil

08:07by throwing stones at three pillars

08:10after the sacrifice of cattle

08:12which can be accomplished by using a voucher

08:15the pilgrims then are required to either shave

08:18or trim their heads if male

08:20or trim the ends of their hair if female

08:23a celebration of the four-day global festival

08:26of Eid al-Atah proceeds afterwards

08:29may also undertake an Umrah or lesser pilgrimage to Mecca

08:34at other times of the year

08:36however the Umrah is not a substitute for the Hajj

08:40and Muslims are still obligated to perform the Hajj

08:44at some other point in their lifetime

08:47if they have the means to do so

08:49according to the official published statistics

08:52between 2000 and 2019

08:55the average number of attendees is 2,269,145 per year

09:03of which 1,564,710 come from outside Saudi Arabia

09:10and 671,983 are local

09:14the year 2012 marks the highest number of participants

09:183,161,573

09:23in June 2020

09:25while not canceling the Hajj outright

09:28the Saudi government announced

09:30that they would only welcome

09:32quote very limited numbers of pilgrims

09:35who are residents of Saudi Arabia

09:38due to the global COVID-19 pandemic

09:41similar restrictions applied in 2021

09:44but women were permitted to attend

09:46without a male guardian

09:48mahram provided they went in a trustworthy group

09:52who had to attend

09:53rajj in the UK

09:54the

10:12the

10:13the

10:16the

10:19At least 107 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Makkah's Grand Mosque on

10:3511 September, less than two weeks before the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

10:40Saudi Arabia's civil defence authority added that at least 238 people were wounded in this

10:45accident.

10:46According to the Ministry of External Affairs of India, two Indians have also died leaving

10:5015 other Indians badly injured.

10:53Photos and videos on social media showed the crane crashing through the mosque roof and

10:58the aftermath with bodies, blood and debris spread all across the courtyard.

11:03The crane fell 10 days before the start of Hajj which is the annual pilgrimage expected to

11:07bring 2 million people to Makkah.

11:09Scores of people were killed in the holy city of Mecca on Friday when a construction crane

11:13collapsed into the Grand Mosque during a violent rainstorm, Saudi officials said.

11:18By late Friday, more than 100 people were reported dead and dozens injured, according to local

11:24officials.

11:26the accident comes only days before the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage which is expected

11:41to bring more than 2 million religious tourists to Saudi Arabia.

11:45More than half a million pilgrims already have arrived to the kingdom in preparation for the event.

11:50Here's some video that was just put on YouTube by a witness.

11:52of the

12:08On a Friday afternoon, September 11, 2015, less than two weeks before the Hajj pilgrimage,

12:29a powerful storm took down a giant construction crane at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

12:36It crashed onto hundreds of pilgrims inside the mosque compound.

12:40111 people died, hundreds more were injured.

12:44The majority of the victims were from Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Egypt.

12:49Saudi King Salman visited the scene of the disaster and ordered an investigation.

12:56He also visited the injured in hospital.

12:58The Royal Palace announced that victims and their families would be compensated 1 million Saudi riyals

13:04or $266,000 for every death and half that amount for each of the injured.

13:12Contracts with the giant Bin Laden construction group, which was in charge of the renovation

13:17of the Grand Mosque, were suspended.

13:19A travel ban was imposed on its senior staff pending the results of the investigation.

13:24The investigating committee accused the company of contravening.

13:27The manufacturer's instructions that the crane should be lowered when not in use or during heavy winds.

13:33But a Saudi court said there wasn't enough evidence and cleared the Bin Laden group of any responsibility.

13:40Instead, it found the extreme weather conditions, heavy rain, lightning strikes and high winds,

13:46were to blame and not human neglect.

13:48The court lifted the travel ban on the group's employees and ruled that no deal or blood money

13:55is to be paid to the victims. Saudi Arabia's Attorney General says he'll appeal the ruling.

14:01There was dismay too from social media activists. The compensation pledged by King Salman

14:07was seen as a gesture of real compassion and nothing to do with the so-called blood money.

14:13But it's not clear if or when that money will be paid.

14:16On September 24, 2015, a fatal crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals,

14:26many of whom were suffocated or crushed during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia,

14:35making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history. Estimates of the number of dead vary.

14:42The Associated Press reported 2,411 dead, while Agence France-Presse reported 2,236 killed.

14:54The government of Saudi Arabia officially reported two days after the disaster that there had been 769

15:02deaths and 934 injured. These figures remained official at the time of the next year's Hajj and was never

15:10updated. The largest number of victims were from Iran, followed by Mali and Nigeria. The crush occurred

15:19in Meena at the intersection of Streets 204 and 223 leading to Jamarat Bridge. The cause of the disaster

15:28remains in dispute. The Mina disaster inflamed tensions between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran,

15:38which were already elevated due to the wider turmoil in West Asia, such as the Syrian Civil War and the

15:46Yemeni Civil War. In a press conference held on the day of the disaster, Saudi Ministry of Interior spokesman

15:55Monsaur al-Turkey attempted to address most issues regarding the disaster. He said in September 2015

16:03that an investigation was ongoing and that the exact cause of the overcrowding that resulted in the

16:09deadly crush had not yet been ascertained. The Hajj is an annual pilgrimage in Mecca prescribed

16:19as a duty for Muslims to perform at least once during their lifetime, if they can afford to do so physically

16:27and financially. The Hajj consists of a series of rites, including the stoning of the devil, which is done

16:35at the Jamarat Bridge in Mina, a district a few miles east of Mecca. The Jamarat Bridge is a pedestrian

16:44bridge from which pilgrims can throw pebbles at the three Jamarat pillars. The stoning ritual is the last

16:53major ritual in the part of the Hajj, with the most potential for disaster given its large crowds,

17:00confined spaces, and precise scheduling. The 2015 Hajj occurred during a time of regional turmoil,

17:09including wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. The highest temperatures in Mecca in 20 years,

17:18the threat of Maers and pre-existing tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. A number of Hajj-related

17:26crowd-crush disasters have occurred in the past, with 1,426 people being suffocated and trampled to death

17:36in a 1990 tunnel tragedy, and at least 701 people killed in crowd crushes between 1991 and 2005.

17:50A record two and a half million Muslim worshippers congregated in Mecca this year.

17:55Dressed in seamless white robes, they prayed peacefully on Friday at the top of Mount Arafat.

18:00This was the most sacred day on the Islamic calendar, and by Monday, many had left.

18:07Still, up to 250 pilgrims died in the stampede at Mina, where Muslims go to ritually stone the devil.

18:13It's not the first time that the pilgrimage to Mecca has ended in tragedy.

18:18These pictures were taken at the worst disaster in 1990. Thousands of Muslims died in a stampede that

18:24followed a fire in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca.

18:27The Saudi authorities then spent millions of dollars on widening the roads and building new

18:33tunnels and overhead passes. It even imposed quotas on the number of nationals each Muslim country could

18:39send to Mecca. And yet, four years on, the rescue workers were back on the scene, carrying new victims

18:47of the holy celebrations. The cause of this year's tragedy may be in dispute, but overcrowding seems to be

18:53the root of the problem. 346 people were killed in a similar Jamrat disaster in 2006,

19:01which prompted the Saudi government to improve the infrastructure of the city and its procession

19:07routes. The Saudi Arabian government has been spending $60 billion to expand the Grand Mosque,

19:15which houses the Kaaba and has deployed 100,000 security forces and 5,000 CCTV cameras to monitor the crowds.

19:26The Saudis have also built a permanent tent city in the Mina Valley. It is covered with

19:32approximately 160,000 air-conditioned tents across multiple campsites grouped by nationality,

19:41for use by Hajj pogroms.

19:46the U.S.

20:03On this holy date for Muslims, a stampede as the faithful celebrated Eid Al-Adha,

20:11the streets filled up with bodies. This woman from Egypt says,

20:15pilgrims pushed each other to the ground.

20:18I thought I was going to die, she says.

20:22Her husband did.

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